israel/palestine questions Rating Options

[brooklyneast05]

i'm going to put this in debate, just because i figure there is the possibility of one breaking out. i'm not posing a debate though, just wondering if anyone here can shed some light that i can comprehend.

basically, i don't really get the deal with Palestine and Israel. i've never been in a history class that really addressed it so i've always been confused about all of it. it's frustrating to me to see stuff all over the news and feel like i don't have an opinion one way or the other becuase i don't get what is going on. i've been reading about it, but it's still confusing as hell.

i keep reading stuff that basically just says how they Palestinians got kicked out of their home, and they are pissed and want their land back. well...that doesn't seem that irrational to me. i would too, of course not enough that i'm ok with my kids and future generations dying over it but you know. so i guess lots of the stuff i read, i sorta agree with the Palestinians. then when i say that, people are like "NO, THEY ARE WRONG, ISRAEL IS OUR ALLY, NOT THEM. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT"

so i guess i wanna know what i'm talking about. why do we favor Israel in this mess? am i just completely missing something in not understanding why Isreal is right and the Palestinians are wrong?

[stormbringer]

In my opinion, Israel is totally justified in what they are doing. Palestine is always saying that they want to wipe out all of the Jews on the planet, posting posters and teaching their children that it is glorious to be a suicide bomber, even dressing their children up in suicide bombers outfits. That's just disgusting. Then, one fine day, Palestine decides to start to start shooting some missiles at Israel. Israel even gives them a few days grace period until Israel will start shooting back at them. I mean, what are they supposed to do, stand by and watch while Palestine tries to wipe them off the face of the earth? And to be honest, Israel is being very careful not to harm innocent civilians. But when a Palestinian bomber surrounds himself with women and children ALL THE TIME, there has to be some consequences. And to surround yourself with women and children so you won't get shot, to me that is absolute cowardice. To me, Palestine is acting just like a small dog who keeps on bugging a bigger dog, until the bigger dog has decided it has had quite enough of being harassed by the smaller dog, and decides to make it understand that it just wants to be left alone. And then, the smaller dog runs away, whimpering and cowering against it's owner, who then beats up the bigger dog.